Jim's attempts to meet Isabelle and Sophie are noticed by Emily, causing tension between her and Jim, even when they go further with the kids to Epcot. She then informs him that the parks' wholesome, costumed princesses are actually part of a secret prostitution ring that services rich Asian businessmen and that the turkey legs sold in the park are actually emu meat. Later on, he meets a mysterious woman, who uses a necklace of hers to hypnotize him, making him black out and wake up to her raping him. The family leave their hotel room and takes the monorail to the park alongside two French teenage girls, Isabelle and Sophie, who pique Jim's interest, unbeknownst to his wife Emily, and their two children Elliot and Sara.ĭuring the rides, Jim has a series of bizarre and disturbing hallucinations, such as the faces of animatronic characters warping and taking on evil appearances, and his family verbally abusing him.Īfter an argument with his wife, Jim takes their children to various Disney park rides, while pursuing Sophie and Isabelle. Refusing to ruin his family's vacation, Jim decides to keep it to himself. On the last day of his family's vacation at Walt Disney World, blue-collar worker Jim White gets fired for an unknown reason, during a phone call with his boss at the Contemporary Resort Hotel. It has received mixed reviews, praising its visuals and ambitious production, but criticizing its execution. It was released simultaneously to theaters and video on-demand on October 11, 2013, through Producers Distribution Agency, a Cinetic Media company. At the time of its premiere, Disney stated that it was "aware" of the film since then the online supplement to Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia has included an entry for the film. Although many who saw it at the Sundance Film Festival expressed strong doubts that the film would be shown to a wider audience due to the legal issues involved and the negative depiction of the parks, The Walt Disney Company did not prevent the film from being released. It has been compared to the work of Roman Polanski and David Lynch. Rather than suppressing the film as Moore claimed would happen, Disney chose to ignore it. It has been called "the ultimate guerrilla film". Sundance similarly declined to discuss the film in detail before it was shown. After principal photography was complete, Moore was so determined to keep the film a secret from Disney that he edited it in South Korea. Due to Disney's reputation of being protective of its intellectual property, the cast and crew used guerrilla filmmaking techniques to avoid attracting attention, such as keeping their scripts on their phones and shooting on handheld video cameras similar to those used by park visitors. The film drew attention, because Moore had shot most of it on location at both Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Park without permission from The Walt Disney Company, owner and operator of both properties. The film was a 2012 official selection of the PollyGrind Film Festival, but at the time filmmakers were still working on some legal issues and asked that it not be screened. It premiered in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later a personal selection of Roger Ebert, shown at his 15th annual film festival in Champaign, Illinois. It tells the story of an unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort. Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American independent horror film written and directed by Randy Moore in his directorial debut.
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